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Nudge — 292 episodes

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Prof Wiseman: “My (Failed) Search for the World's Funniest Joke”

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Why willpower alone doesn’t work

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Prof Wiseman: “This is how you spot a liar”

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Nir Eyal “Why These £39 Placebo Pills Actually Work”

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What the World’s ‘Best Chat-Up Line’ Reveals About Human Psychology

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Learn psychological pricing in 24 minutes

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Will Guidara: How Cognac solved a major problem at the world’s #1 restaurant

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How this fraudster sold fake Scottish tea to the rich & famous

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Will Guidara: “Here’s how I built the world’s #1 restaurant"

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Can this “magic” number change your behaviour?

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Are we all just status-seeking monkeys?

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“These two words increased sales by 18%.” Robert Cialdini

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When you can’t stop seeing the thing you’ve just discovered

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The Psych-Trick Behind One of the Decade’s Fastest Growing Orgs

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Real-world examples of cognitive biases

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“This common pricing strategy is completely wrong!” Robert Cialdini

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Robert Cialdini: “This study on 6,700 websites proved my principle!”

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The Secret Behind KFC’s Success

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Why is it so hard to say no?

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The top 9 tips from 55 Nudge episodes in 2025

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The nudge that persuaded Aussies to stop speeding

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Don’t listen to this podcast

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Why We’re Irrationally Loyal to Amazon Prime

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Robert Cialdini: "Everyone Should Memorise This Persuasion Principle"

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Why Everyone’s Suddenly Drinking Aperol Spritz

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Five science-backed tips to become a better leader

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What Marge Simpson Can Teach You About Leadership

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Are leaders born or are they made?

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How did Guinness become Britain’s most popular pint?

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The Surprising Menu Psychology Behind Five Guys’ Success

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Why did Partygate Make Voters so Angry?

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How HubSpot’s CMO Uses AI: 4 Important Tips

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How sights, smells and sounds alter what you buy

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Is this famous team-building model wrong?

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Why (often) you're less productive in a team

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Why AI-generated content won't move you

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This small change can make a politician electable

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When Schiphol Airport shredded 400 squirrels (and why no one was to blame)

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Dissecting Zohran Mamdani’s winning marketing tactics

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Did I Get It Wrong? | Revisiting Priming

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‘New Coke’ and the marketing blunder of the century

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How your brain can reveal what you buy

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How this indie movie used psychology to beat Hollywood

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Why naming a dish “field-grown” doubled sales

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Three tricks Super Mario uses to keep gamers hooked

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This single text made girls 45% more likely to get vaccinated

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A surprisingly effective way to persuade (almost) anyone

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I debunked psychology’s greatest myth

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The surprising true story behind “the greatest ad ever made”

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Instagram failed until it made THIS simple change

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I tested this marketing guru’s advice. Was it a waste of time?

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A year-long happiness experiment: Try one new thing a week (did it work?)

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Learn 7 scientifically-backed marketing tips in 27 minutes

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Six eco-brands using psychology to sell

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Oliver Burkeman: “Most scholars worked for just 4 hours a day”

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Oliver Burkeman: “I stared at a painting for 3 hours straight”

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The most destructive ad campaign in history

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Louis Grenier’s Extremely Uncensored Take on Marketing

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One simple trick to improve your memory

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Will tips from a 102-year-old marketing book work in 2025?

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Can you implant fake memories?

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Elon Musk’s Controversial Interview Question

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Surprising truths about memory with Dr. Ranganath

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Should you trust your gut?

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“99.9% of ads are genuinely awful” Tom Goodwin

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7 marketing psychology tips you can apply today

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Tiny nudges that can drastically improve your life

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Introducing: Nudge Unit

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Why most bestselling business books are BS

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Can 10,000 hours of practice make you great?

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What sets top negotiators apart?

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Can you see the invisible gorilla?

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Francesca Gino Scandal: What Really Happened

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Can I fool veteran marketers with my AI fakery?

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The experiment every marketer should know

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The best of Nudge in 2024

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Every trick Steve Jobs used to persuade in 68 minutes

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I changed one sentence and got 20% more views

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This Harvard prof made my emails 3.5x better

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17½ persuasion tactics in 28 minutes

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I watched 300 TV ads: Here’s how they nudge you

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The Psychology Behind a Perfect (SaaS) Website

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Can I create a viral YouTube video?

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I shrunk Britain’s #1 bread. Did anyone notice?

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Can I persuade 20 strangers to listen to Nudge?

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Lessons from the longest study on human happiness

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Is the “godfather of influence” still relevant?

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Did Nintendo Brain Training make me smarter?

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Everything I know about creativity is false

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This professor increased my sales by 6x

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This is why your boss makes bad hires

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The trade secrets con men don't reveal

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How Messi Used Psychology to Become Great

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This Harvard Professor Studies Our Weird Rituals

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How I persuaded 8 influencers to promote Nudge

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21 Psyc-Tips to Increase Sales (with Nick Kolenda)

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Can Charles Duhigg Make Me Popular?

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What happens when AI can persuade humans?

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7 cognitive biases that might ruin your life

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The lying psychologist who fooled the world

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Rory Sutherland on Drink Driving, Five Guys and the Tube Map

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How to give an election winning speech

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“It’s the mistake EVERY business makes” Rory Sutherland

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How adverts use psychology to win you over

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How to win any argument (according to a neuroscientist)

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10 psychological tactics to write better emails

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How 22,000 were persuaded to clean sewage

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The persuasive power of profanity

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The speech that put a man on the moon

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“Don’t be fooled by this sales trick” Chris Voss

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FBI hostage negotiator shares his worst mistakes

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10 pricing tips from 10 pricing experts

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“It's How McDonald’s Make Men Binge” Rory Sutherland

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6 scientifically-proven persuasion techniques

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The overlooked secret to better writing

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Can knowing more make you enjoy less?

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Why Amazon paid staff $5k to quit

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The £500 million marketing mistake

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The hidden (sexual) symbolism in the McDonald's logo

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Why these irrational prices actually work

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Life lessons from a world-leading neuroscientist

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Do you have unethical amnesia?

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The hypnotising effect of Valentine’s day

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How to create an irresistible offer (that’s proven to sell)

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What makes a song popular?

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I have two big announcements

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Should I share all my secrets?

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Is mass hysteria more common than you think?

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This advice will make you more persuasive

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How Sainsbury’s and Adobe nudge customers

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The best of Nudge in 2023

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10 lessons from the #1 marketing podcasters

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MAAATE: The most polarising ad of the year

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Six proven principles to persuade anyone

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“Voter” vs. “Vote”: How one letter changed elections

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This podcast has 1,231,705 plays (learn why that’s important)

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Why telling someone what to do won't work

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How incentives work (and why most backfire)

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The hidden impact of the words you use (feat Dr Jonah Berger)

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Why too much choice is a bad thing

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How to manipulate the masses

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Why your accountant won’t get a tattoo

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Feed Swap: Seth Godin’s Secrets to Launching a New Business

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He reviewed 74 marketing science papers so you don’t have to

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Why powerful people dress differently

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7 Marketing Lessons from HubSpot’s CMO Kipp Bodnar

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Do brainstorms actually work?

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Why ads that rhyme stand the test of time

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I didn't want to publish this episode

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Does subliminal advertising work?

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The secret psychology behind movie trailers

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Emergency Pod: Harvard Fake Data Scandal

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Feel free to ignore this episode

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Winston Churchill: Lessons for modern day leaders

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Listen to exactly 17 minutes and 42 seconds of this episode

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The nudge behind this $200k side hustle

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Today’s guest is Ri_h_rd Sh_tto_

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Elizabeth Holmes: How she deceived the world (part two)

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There’s a problem with the world’s most famous nudge

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Elizabeth Holmes: The psychology of a liar (part one)

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Why card counters can’t bankrupt casinos (with Steven Bridges)

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Tips for living a happier life (according to science)

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Why working at a large organisation will kill your creativity

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Can too much free time make you unhappy?

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How black cab drivers memorise every road in London

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The way to cure your procrastination problem

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The overlooked productivity hack that’s backed by science

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Why stupid people think they’re smart

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How to stay motivated (according to science)

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The surprisingly simple way to change someone’s mind

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Greta Thunberg: How a teenager caught the world's attention

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I tested 5 MORE marketing principles to see if they really worked

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Five ads that changed the world

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The persuasive effect of mere exposure

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I tested 5 marketing principles to see if they really worked

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The worst ways to spend your money (according to science)

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How to get a raise (according to Dan Pink)

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Could you fall in love with AI?

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MrBeast: How to capture the attention of billions

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Can money buy happiness?

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Are kids today less resilient?

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Steve Jobs: How he persuaded the world (part 2)

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Steve Jobs: The master of persuasion (part 1)

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5 things I learned from psychology experts in 2022

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The reason why stories stick in your mind

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The scientific secrets of perfect timing (feat. Dan Pink)

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Can brands change what you think?

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Why 'doing everything' at work won't work

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The secrets salespeople won’t tell you

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I used an ancient storytelling trick to get 11k TikTok followers

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Julius Caesar: How to influence an empire

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Cost-free marketing that actually works

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How a blanket design saved 1,000s from malnutrition

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Is growth mindset training a waste of time?

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The surprising trait that links elite performers

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How I improved a Reddit ad by 15% using a magic trick

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Jose Mourinho: Do mind games really work?

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Dan Pink: “Here’s what you’ll regret when you’re older”

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Dan Pink: “No regrets? That’s bullsh*t”

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I studied persuasion for 100 hours. Here’s what I learnt.

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How To Make Someone Say Yes

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How Your Subconscious Calls The Shots

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Why a Footballer Warned us About Nuclear War

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Think Customers Hate to Wait? Think Again.

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Your Great Ideas Aren’t Unique (Here's Why That’s a Good Thing)

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Think you know marketing? Take this test.

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How to Make Numbers Unforgettable

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Tiny Tweaks to Make Travel Easier

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Habit Moulding Marketing

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3 Nudges I Wish I Learned at Business School

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64% of us would vandalise a library book. Would you?

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#80: You have more influence than you think

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#79: Primacy Effect | Why Going First Wins

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#78: Nature vs nurture with Lisa Feldman Barrett

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#77: Debunking myths about the brain

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#76: Harry Dry’s favorite marketing examples

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#75: Beware of Behaviour Science BS

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#74: How to change someone’s mind

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#73: Why we can’t stop following the herd

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#72: 6 memorable marketing lessons from 2021

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#71: Small nudges having a big impact on climate change

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#70: The Pratfall Effect | DON'T listen to this show

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#69: Reciprocity | How one nudge saved 246,184 lives

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#68: The Peak-End Rule | And the supermarket that destroyed communism

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#67: Growing this podcast with nudge experiments | Social proof

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#66: The dark nudges behind digital manipulation

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#65: Failures (and wins) from using nudges in marketing

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#64: Welcome to the Rory Sutherland Nudge Clinic

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#63: Rory Sutherland | Why counter-intuitive thinking wins

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#62: Unexpected ways to overcome anxiety

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#61: The science of stress and 3 ways to beat it

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#60: How not to suck at customer interviews

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#59: How to stand the f*ck out

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#58: Why brands should flaunt their flaws

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#57: Charm Pricing: The greatest trick in marketing?

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#56: The lazy, scared and overwhelmed consumer

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#55: Why Our Brains Crave Negativity

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#54: Stop Listening to Customers?!

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#53: Do our ancestors dictate our decisions?

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#52: IKEA Effect: We Love What We Create

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#51: Advertising Ethics: Can Facebook ads swing an election?

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#50: What marketers can learn from your Facebook profile

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#49: Nudges to help customers onboard

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#48: April Dunford on Nailing Product Positioning

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#47: Why do marketers suck at positioning?

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Introducing the Science of Marketing Course

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#46: Five marketing lessons for 2021

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#45: 3 Crucial Lessons for Entrepreneurs

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#44: Do Nudges Really Work?

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#43: When financial incentives don’t work

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#42: Common pricing mistakes most businesses make

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#41: The irrational way we perceive food

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#40: What Makes A Great Story?

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#39: A Neuroscientist and Marketer Discuss | What is a Brand?

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#38: Is swearing good for you?

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#37: When growth hacks fail | With Rand Fishkin

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#36: Find the right audience | With Rand Fishkin

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#35: How to get your side hustle off the ground

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#34: The Psychology of Price | Part Two

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#33: The Psychology of Price | Part One

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#32: 6 discriminatory mistakes most hiring managers make

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#31: SaaS Startups: 8 Hacks To Grow Your Brand

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#30: The science behind great adverts

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#29: Why first impressions matter

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#28: Coronavirus: How to change the behavior of a nation

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#27: Understanding customers during times of uncertainty

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#26: Why do 80% of product launches fail?

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#25: Coronavirus: The psychology behind panic buying

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#24: How to nudge within your business

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#23: How to make your writing more effective

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#22: How to be a good boss

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#21: The science behind improving your productivity

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#20: Debunking a marketing myth

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#19: Why marketing is vital, not a nice to have

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#18: 8 nudges you need in 2020

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#17: How marketers alter our behavior

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#16: What makes a good website?

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#15: What VR reveals about a consumer’s mind

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#14: How to stop getting distracted

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#13: What makes products like Instagram so addictive?

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#12: The science behind influencer marketing

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#11: What makes someone more convincing than others?

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#10: Time to stop targeting “millennials”

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#9: How to nudge people into voting, buying and recycling

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#8: The power of scarcity and why less is more

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#7: How the UK government nudges British people

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#6: The psychology behind effective pricing

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#5: The science behind distinctive advertising

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#4: How social proof reduces theft and doubles sales

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#3: Why marketers want to know your habits

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#2: Five highly effective negotiation tactics

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#1: How music affects what we buy